One of the fundamental issues in programming languages is the "types" of objects or data primitives they afford to programmers. Fundamentally, these object types fall into the following categories:Boolean--this is a type, sometimes abbreviated bool,...

Data are simply pieces of information, and an individual piece of information is a datum. Common usage, however, allows "data" as both the singular and plural form of the word. In the hardware of computers, data exists as bits and bytes stored as...

Coercion of data types is a technique for converting data from one type to another; its purpose is to make the data compatible with the code executing a command. Data-type coercion is an action usually taken "behind the scenes" by a computer without...

In programming languages a data type defines a set of values and the allowable operations on those values[1]. For example, in the Java programming language, the "int" type represents the set of 32-bit integers ranging in value from -2,147,483,648 to...

every business owner dreams of having the ability to know what is happening in all aspects of his or her operation and of being able to use that information to better market-and profit by-his or her wares. In years past, a one-owner enterprise could...

This article describes a variety of data analysis problems. The types of data across these problems included free text, parallel text, an image collection, remote sensing imagery, and network packets. A strategy for approaching the analysis of these diverse types of data is...